Conducting the rite of installation, Archbishop Mpako invited Bishop Nubuasah to the cathedra and presented him with the pastoral staff, the foremost insignia of the bishop which is ancient and identifies the bishop as the pastor.

The following day the smaller Ex Cathedra Consort will be joined by Fretwork viol consort at Birmingham Town Hall (4pm) for a concert which will explore the grandeur, emotion and beauty of Christmas festivities at the court of Elizabeth I.

And even if it could be argued that the Pope is not making an ex cathedra pronouncement, what about the Vatican II document Lumen Gentium, which states: "This religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic Magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra; that is, it must be shown in such a way that his supreme Magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will" (#25).

Bishops adopted the practice of using a sedes as a sign of their office, and the church over which the bishop served as pastor came to be known as a cathedral (from another Latin word for "chair," cathedra).

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